Nadir Soofi

Nadir Soofi (1981-3 May 2015) was an Islamic State supporter who, along with Elton Simpson, attacked the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas in May 2015 as a "Draw Muhammad Day" art exposition was taking place.

Biography
Nadir Soofi was born in 1981 in Dallas, Texas to Pakistani father Azam Soofi and his American Catholic wife Sharon, and he was raised in Plano, Texas. In the 1990s the parents divorced, and Soofi moved to Pakistan with his father and stepmother. He was popular among his classmates at the International School of Islamabad. In 2003 he dropped out of the University of Utah, owning the Cleopatra Bistro Pizza restaurant until it closed down in January 2015. He also had a criminal record involving the sale of drugs, and he had a failed marriage; Soofi became a radical Islamist after these failures. Along with Elton Simpson, a radical convert to Islam, he set out for the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland as there was an art exposition containing blasphemous pictures of Muhammad. They wounded a security guard before the two of them were killed by another one.